Cover Photos:
Rice/Englert Family Archives
Kenneth with Rice’s Delivery Truck, 1941
Rice’s Plant, 1959
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Big Muddy 4.2
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Contents
Nonfiction
Scott M. Fisher, Iowa
Down the River
Philip C. Kolin, Mississippi
In the Chips: An Interview with Rice’s Potato Chips’ President Hilary Englert
Stephen J. Lyons, Illinois
Mississippi River’s Garbage Man
Fiction
Brian David Cinadr, California
always a river song
Joan Conner, Ohio
The Three Minute Love Story
Cedelas Hall, Mississippi
Red Dresses
K. Kenyon, New York
Heart Mountain
Jason Makansi, Missouri
Little Egypt
Tim Nicolai, Missouri
When We Defeat the Norwegians
Andrew Schultz, New York
Love Shack
Photography/Artwork
Heather Baskin, Missouri
River Barge
Covered Bridge
Reflections at Bollinger
Carol Wheeler, Texas
Three Pelicans
Three Parrots
Gerald Wheeler, Texas
Legacy
Poetry
Eric Austin, Minnesota
Awash in the Water
Lisa Beatman,Massachusetts
over easy
Mulberries
not about trees
Beth Bishop, Tennessee
Bayou Orientation
Jason Lee Brown, Illinois
Old Man
John Grey, Rhode Island
Sara and the Flood
J.T. Ledbetter, California
Southern Illinois Suite
Alana Merritt Mahaffey, Arkansas
Hollowing
Clay Matthews, Missouri
Swan Song Dive
Wedding Song
Before the Flood, ’93
John McBride, Iowa
Is Grant Wood’s Iowa True?
Gwen Monohan, Virginia
Eye Levels
Meanders
Laurence Snydal, California
Isolationism
Ice Breaking
Virgil Suarez, Florida
Church of the American Open Road
Reviews
Heather Cooke reviews:
Gaus, P.L. Cast a Blue Shadow: An Ohio Amish Mystery. Ohio University Press, 2003. Paper, 225 pp., $12.95. Fiction.
Heather Baskin reviews:
Hunt, Laird. Indiana, Indiana. Coffee House Press, 2003. Hardback, 204 pp. $20. Fiction
Nikki Trokey reviews:
Kalu, Anthonia C. Broken Lives and Other Stories. Ohio University Press, 2003. Paper, 183 pp. $19.95. Short Fiction.
Jeremy Bleckler reviews:
Auster, Paul. The Book of Illusions. Picador, 2002. Paper, 336 pp. $14. Fiction.
Nikolai J. Watts reviews:
Delahunt, Meaghan. In the Casa Azul. Picador Press, 2001. Paper, 306 pp. $14. Fiction.
Dustin Michael reviews:
Spatz, Gregory. Wonderful Tricks. Mid-List Press, 2002. Paper, 246 pp. $15. Short Fiction.
Shawn McLain reviews:
Harsch, Rick. The Sleep of the Aborigines. Steerforth Press, 2002. Paper, 170 pp. $14. Fiction.
Gary Mize reviews:
Kîs, Danilo. Garden, Ashes. Harcourt, 1975. Paper, 170 pp. $12.95. Fiction.
Susie Scanlan reviews:
Williams, C.K. Repair. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000. Paper, 80 pp. $12. Poetry
Mandy Henley reviews:
Comer, Carrie St. George. The Unrequited. Sarabande Books, 2003. Paper, 104 pp. $12.95. Poetry.
Lynn Watson reviews:
Dickson, Foster. Kindling Not Yet Split. Court Street Press, 2001. Paper, 64 pp. $6. Poetry.
Heather Baskin reviews:
Collins, Billy. Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry. Random House, 2003. Paper, 323 pp. $13.95. Poetry.